diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/cli-runtime/pkg/genericclioptions/config_flags.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/cli-runtime/pkg/genericclioptions/config_flags.go
index 402caa86bf0..754951fd60c 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/cli-runtime/pkg/genericclioptions/config_flags.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/cli-runtime/pkg/genericclioptions/config_flags.go
@@ -447,9 +447,9 @@ func NewConfigFlags(usePersistentConfig bool) *ConfigFlags {
 
 		usePersistentConfig: usePersistentConfig,
 		// The more groups you have, the more discovery requests you need to make.
-		// given 25 groups (our groups + a few custom resources) with one-ish version each, discovery needs to make 50 requests
-		// double it just so we don't end up here again for a while.  This config is only used for discovery.
-		discoveryBurst: 100,
+		// with a burst of 300, we will not be rate-limiting for most clusters but
+		// the safeguard will still be here. This config is only used for discovery.
+		discoveryBurst: 300,
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/discovery/discovery_client.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/discovery/discovery_client.go
index baf87884621..ec7ebf05105 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/discovery/discovery_client.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/discovery/discovery_client.go
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ const (
 	// defaultTimeout is the maximum amount of time per request when no timeout has been set on a RESTClient.
 	// Defaults to 32s in order to have a distinguishable length of time, relative to other timeouts that exist.
 	defaultTimeout = 32 * time.Second
+
+	// defaultBurst is the default burst to be used with the discovery client's token bucket rate limiter
+	defaultBurst = 300
 )
 
 // DiscoveryInterface holds the methods that discover server-supported API groups,
@@ -456,12 +459,13 @@ func setDiscoveryDefaults(config *restclient.Config) error {
 	if config.Timeout == 0 {
 		config.Timeout = defaultTimeout
 	}
-	if config.Burst == 0 && config.QPS < 100 {
+	// if a burst limit is not already configured
+	if config.Burst == 0 {
 		// discovery is expected to be bursty, increase the default burst
 		// to accommodate looking up resource info for many API groups.
 		// matches burst set by ConfigFlags#ToDiscoveryClient().
 		// see https://issue.k8s.io/86149
-		config.Burst = 100
+		config.Burst = defaultBurst
 	}
 	codec := runtime.NoopEncoder{Decoder: scheme.Codecs.UniversalDecoder()}
 	config.NegotiatedSerializer = serializer.NegotiatedSerializerWrapper(runtime.SerializerInfo{Serializer: codec})